Remove Communities Remove HootSuite Remove Microblogging Remove Twitter
article thumbnail

10 Social Media Tools To Help With Your Crowdsourcing Efforts

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

There have also been doctors that have used social networking tools, like Twitter, during surgery. He used Twitter to raise money for charity if people tweeted and blamed his cancer. Here are ten social media tools that can aid you with crowdsourcing: Twitter It is already being used for many crowdsourcing efforts.

article thumbnail

How to Create Effective Social Media Guidelines for Your Business

Hootsuite

Social media guidelines are also different from community guidelines, which set the rules for public engagement with your account or group. To combat online abuse, the Royal Family shared its own community guidelines last year. Take Hootsuite Academy’s free course Implementing Social Media Governance within your Organization.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

The History of Social Media in 33 Key Moments

Hootsuite

Tumblr and the age of the microblog (2007) In 2007, the social network described as “Twitter meets YouTube and WordPress” came a-tumblin’ along when 17-year-old David Karp launched Tumblr from his bedroom. The hashtag arrives (2007) The strict 140-character limit for tweets set Twitter apart from rivals, including Facebook and Tumblr.

article thumbnail

Why You Should Have a Secondary Twitter Account

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

I, too, find that Twitter has been incredibly powerful for me to connect with real life colleagues, readers of Techipedia, family, and everyone in between. I’m also something of a Twitter purist. Enter a second Twitter account. With Twitter being so incredibly large and vast, there are different types of mini-communities.

Twitter 205
article thumbnail

5 Things Blogging Taught Me About Tweeting

Kikolani

It was less than 6 months ago that I decided to fully start out on Twitter. Vividly I applied some key lessons I learnt and my experience was that it worked extremely well on Twitter too. Fortunately the time when Twitter was a ranting tool you would use to put your thoughts out to no one and anyone is gone. Consistency is Key.

Directory 136
article thumbnail

How to Use Facebook for Business and Marketing

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Don’t shy away from giving your community the information needed to find you elsewhere both online and offline. Don’t cross promote to Twitter (offer a different incentive on Twitter). Give them a reason to want to communicate. One way is to see is by giving exclusive deals to Facebook fans.

Facebook 279
article thumbnail

Tweet Spinner Review: A Powerful Application to Manage Your Tweets

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Tweet Spinner is a powerful application that manages the more high level management Twitter tasks for you, from managing followers/friends to changing your profile design and then some. Consider spam protection for your email inbox ported over Twitter. Twitter CRM. It’s especially difficult to build up a strong following.